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Easy meals with vegetables
Vegetables.co.nz continually strive to keep ‘kiwi’s’ well. Here they team up with Te Hiring Hanora /Health Promotion Agency (HPA) and the Heart Foundation to bring us cheap and easy resources to up our vege intake. Read more
Sports nutrition for swimming
Swimming requires serious commitment to training and elite swimmers train anywhere between 6-12 times per week. Sessions can cover 10 km and include 1-2 km of high intensity sprints. In this great factsheet by Sports Dietitians Australia you can find out more about: Body composition Training diet for swimmers What to have for breakfast How … Read more
Rather than giving yourself a boring, tiring review of 2022, try this…
At this time of year it’s easy to look back on the year just gone and give yourself a pass mark, a “could do better” or a (deeply compassionate) fail. Find out what Pyschologist Karen Nimmo advises for a simpler, kinder approach Read more
Are you eating enough to fuel performance?
Are you eating enough for performance? The Australian Insititute of Sport has recently put out two excellent infographics on the subject of energy deficiency, why it happens, its affects on performance and what you can do. Read more
A stable gut helps elite athletes perform better
Researchers in the UK have studied the impact of high protein and high carbohydrate regimes on the stability of microbiome in the gut to see if this can alter performance of endurance athletes during time trials. Learn more… Read more
Is fake meat healthy? And what’s actually in it?
For people keen to reduce their intake of animal products and eat more plant based foods, fake meat may seem like a good alternative. So how healthy is it? Can it reduce our weight and cholesterol and is it good for the planet? Read more
Low iron is a health risk made worse with Covid 19
Feeling tired and washed out? Maybe you’re iron deficient. Its a worldwide problem. New research shows Covid 19 may be altering our gut health, reducing iron absorption and the effectiveness of supplementation. Learn more Read more
The secret to mastering life’s biggest transitions
Are you feeling ‘stuck’ in a chapter of your life that you’re ready to move on from? Maybe you feel caught in uncertain, painful and confusing times. This Ted Talk with author Bruce Feller offers some powerful tools to help. Read more